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USE OF SELF‐RECORDING TO MAINTAIN STAFF‐RESIDENT INTERACTION
Author(s) -
Baldwin S.,
Hattersley J.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
journal of intellectual disability research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.941
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1365-2788
pISSN - 0964-2633
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2788.1984.tb01602.x
Subject(s) - mental health , citation , psychology , library science , medical education , medicine , psychiatry , computer science
The study was designed to increase levels of staff-resident interaction on a long-stay residential ward for mentally retarded women. Ward nursing staff implemented self-recording techniques to record behavioural training targets with individual residents. Targets included social and self-help skills, with long term goals of improved independent functioning and increased socialisation. Levels of physical contact, verbal interaction and appropriate target activities with residents showed a steady increase over a 3-month period, with no adverse effect upon levels of direct health care activities. The benefits of self-recording methods are discussed with reference to issues of maintenance and generalisation.